re: walking dead 3-11 (no spoilers about finale)

After seeing the helicopter in episode 1, I would assume that there is still pockets of a well equiped functional government/governing body.

I would head to the best place to be in a doomsday apocalypse setting, military base. Ft knox or ft benning for rick and his group.

In a zombie apocalypse, the bigger your group the better. Trying to fend off the undead And/or other bands of surviving marauders would be futile.